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This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
it is not possible to add this information.
+20101002
+ + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
+ pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
+ + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
+ inconsistent printer-controls.
+ + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
+ form is available -TD
+ + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
+ ANSI -TD
+ + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
+ Sven Joachim).
+ + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
+ + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
+ + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
+ Joachim).
+ + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
+ distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
+ in mingw_arch
+
+20100925
+ + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
+ xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
+ special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
+ README.MinGW).
+ + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
+
+20100918
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
+ + add manpage for sp-funcs.
+ + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
+
+20100911
+ + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
+ and form-libraries.
+ + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
+ + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
+ (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
+ + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
+ platforms.
+
+20100904
+ + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
+ programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20100828
+ + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
+ + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
+ message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
+ description (prompted by Debian #593920).
+ + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
+ descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
+ + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
+ Sittler).
+
+20100814
+ + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
+ the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
+ (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
+ + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
+ by Tim van der Molen).
+ + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
+ tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
+ library configuration.
+ + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
+ directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
+ + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
+
+20100807
+ + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
+ (cf: 20100724)
+ + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
+ used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
+ e.g., for cross-compiling.
+ + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
+ + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
+
+20100731
+ + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
+ special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
+ (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
+ + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
+ is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
+ + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
+ + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
+ http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
+
+20100724
+ + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
+ + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
+ it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
+ (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
+ + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
+ after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
+ + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
+ GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
+
+20100717
+ + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
+ the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
+ + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
+ Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
+
+20100703
+ + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
+ + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
+ + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
+
+20100626
+ + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
+ + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
+ work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
+
+20100619
+ + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
+ + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
+ + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
+ will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
+
+20100612
+ + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
+ + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
+ + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
+ /usr/lib/ada).
+ + update Ada95/configure.
+ + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
+ + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
+ of updating LIBS variable.
+
+20100605
+ + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
+ work with 64-bit compiles.
+ + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
+ (cf: 20081227)
+
+20100529
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
+ used by PDCurses.
+ + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
+ assignments to $LIBS, etc.
+ + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
+ and --enable-weak-symbols options.
+
+20100522
+ + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
+ adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
+ Pierre Labastie).
+ + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
+ the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
+ build- and target-machines differ.
+ + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
+ variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
+ are used.
+ + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
+ variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
+
+20100515
+ + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
+ new EINTR feature is enabled.
+ + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
+ a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
+ + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
+ + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
+ "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
+ Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
+ feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
+ with the standard builds of ncurses.
+ + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
+ + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
+ + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
+ found in predefined libraries.
+ + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
+
+20100501
+ + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
+ (patch by David Benjamin).
+ + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
+ + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
+ included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
+ may be defined by that route.
+
+20100424
+ + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
+ + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
+ the predefined include directories.
+ + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
+ with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
+ where older versions would produce an error.
+
+20100417
+ + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
+ + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
+ terminfo to termcap strings
+ + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
+ which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
+ + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
+ directory was already added.
+ + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
+ directories (which will be ignored).
+
+20100410
+ + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
+ + discard motion events
+ + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
+ + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
+ + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
+ cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
+
+20100403
+ + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
+ + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
+ environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
+ (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
+ + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
+ + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
+ extended-colors configuration.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
+ + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
+ configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
+
+20100327
+ + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
+ reusable.
+ + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
+ + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
+ (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
+ given library.
+ + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
+ normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
+ Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
+
+20100320
+ + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
+ newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
+ Hourihane).
+
+20100313
+ + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
+ install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
+ option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
+ + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
+ compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
+ ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
+ + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
+ TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
+ Kaseorg).
+
+20100306
+ + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
+ (suggested by Sven Joachim).
+ + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
+ va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
+
+20100227
+ + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
+ Ada95/make-tar.sh
+ + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
+ model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
+
+20100220
+ + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
+ making those separately distributable.
+ + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
+ + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
+ Schwarze).
+
+20100213
+ + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
+
+20100206
+ + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
+ + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
+ + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
+ to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20100130
+ + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
+ + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
+ + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
+ + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20100123
+ + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
+ initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
+ + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
+ OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
+ _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
+ by Miroslav Lichvar)
+ + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+
+20100116
+ + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
+ that line-drawing works.
+ + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
+ such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
+ capabilities can run.
+ + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
+ declarations.
+
+20100109
+ + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
+ consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
+ + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
+ before older in the list.
+ + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
+ + minor documentation cleanup.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+ (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
+
+20100102
+ + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
+ most common case of SGR 0.
+ + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
+ each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
+ events remain, it will return ERR.
+
+20091227
+ + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
+ first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
+ "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
+ 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
+ ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
+
+20091226
+ + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
+ + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
+ + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
+
+20091219
+ + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
+ window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
+ (report by Katarina Machalkova).
+ + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
+ + update minix terminfo entry -TD
+ + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
+
+20091212
+ + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
+ field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
+ filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
+ + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
+ + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
+ nulls.
+ + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
+ failure.
+ + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
+ tset.c per
+ ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
+ (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+ + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
+ Nicholas Marriott).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
+
+20091205
+ + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
+ wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
+ Garrido Fernandez)
+ + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
+ writing terminfo entries.
+ + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
+ a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
+ by Nicholas Marriott).
+
+20091128
+ + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
+ is enabled.
+ + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
+ enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
+ this.
+
+20091121
+ + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
+ requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
+ rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
+ + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
+ + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
+
+20091114
+
+ + updated man/curs_trace.3x
+ + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
+ + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
+ value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+
+20091107
+ + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
+ and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
+ + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
+ library which help make it compatible with interop applications
+ (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
+ for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
+
+20091031
+ + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
+ as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
+ (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
+ + add START_TRACE in slk_init
+ + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
+ soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
+ + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
+ false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
+ + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
+ discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
+ + add test/xterm-256color.dat
+
+20091024
+ + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
+ + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
+ SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
+ (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
+
+20091017
+ + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
+ a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
+
+20091010
+ + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
+ + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
+ + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
+ as in lib_screen.c
+
+20091003
+ + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
+ and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
+ + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
+ + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
+ > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
+ + add linux-16color
+ + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
+ + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
+
+20090927
+ + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
+ that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
+ + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
+ terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
+ more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
+ termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
+ be enabled.
+ + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
+ library (some work remains for forms library).
+
+20090919
+ + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
+ + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
+ (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
+ + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
+ changes.
+ + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
+ Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
+ + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
+ bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
+
+20090912
+ + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
+ by sharing linedata.h functions):
+ test/test_addstr.c
+ test/test_addwstr.c
+ test/test_addchstr.c
+ test/test_add_wchstr.c
+ + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
+ inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
+ did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
+
+20090906
+ + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
+ work.
+ + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
+ + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
+ (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
+ + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
+ enabled.
+
+20090905
+ + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
+ agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090829
+ + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
+ amd64 (Debian #542031).
+ + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
+
+20090822
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090815
+ + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
+ broken in 20090509 merging.
+ + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
+ in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
+ + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
+ help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
+ + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
+ $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
+ compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
+ + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
+ enable-type switch.
+ + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20090808
+ + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
+ implementation details of hash function.
+
+20090803
+ + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
+ + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
+ from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
+
+20090801
+ + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
+ cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
+ + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
+ test/demo_terminfo.c
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
+
+20090728
+ + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
+ string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
+ cf: 20090711).
+
+20090725
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090718
+ + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
+ 20070704 changes.
+ + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
+ + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
+ change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
+ + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
+ differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
+ values.
+ + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
+ which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
+ + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
+
+20090711
+ + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
+ + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
+ + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
+
+20090704
+ + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
+ + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
+ unctrl().
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090627
+ + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
+ + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
+ option.
+ + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
+ integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
+ MinGW.
+
+20090613
+ + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
+ make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090607
+ + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
+
+20090606
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090530
+ + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
+ using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
+ + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090523
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090516
+ + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
+ SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
+ + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
+ its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
+ #528374).
+
+20090510
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090502
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
+
+20090425
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090419
+ + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
+ Christian Ebert).
+
+20090418
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+
+20090411
+ + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
+ This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
+ part of the form library.
+
+20090404
+ + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
+ Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
+
+20090328
+ + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
+ function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
+ + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
+ by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
+ + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
+ + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
+ a temporary variable.
+ + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
+ library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
+ Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
+ + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
+ with Charles Wilson).
+ + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
+ + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
+ > patches by Charles Wilson:
+ + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
+ version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
+ digits, after the final '.').
+ + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
+ intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
+ using that in the libtool link-commands.
+ + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
+ from 2009031 changes.
+ + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
+ LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
+ termlib) is to be linked.
+ + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
+ enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
+
20090321
+ add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
+ improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
- list).
+ list).
+ suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
overlooked til now.
20081011
- + update html documentation.
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
+ correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
(request by Mike Aubury).
+ add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
stdbool.h, e.g.,
- #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
+ #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
#include <curses.h>
(discussion on XFree86 mailing list).